40 Bible Verses about speaking
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So also unless ye utter by the tongue intelligible words, how shall what is spoken be understood? for thus ye will be only talking to the wind.
For he, that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no one understandeth, though in spirit he speaketh mysteries.
And if any one speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at most by three, and that by turns; and let one interpret.
If any one speak, let it be as declaring the oracles of God: if any one minister, let it be as from the power which God affordeth him: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
And the Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, "Fear not, but speak: and be not silent:
But in a public assembly I had rather speak five words to be understood, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, and therefore have I spoken," we also believe, and therefore speak:
But if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly; and let him speak to himself and to God.
but when they take you up, be not sollicitous how, or what ye shall say; for ye shall be taught in that very instant what ye shall speak: for it is not you that speak,
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord:
Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.
These things have I spoken to you in parables: but the time is coming when I shall no more speak to you in parables, but tell you with plainness concerning the Father.
and now shalt thou be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall come to pass; because thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled at their season.
From Thematic Bible
Symbols of the Holy Spirit » A voice » Speaking
Evil » Speaking » Warnings against
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and fury, and clamor, and calumny, be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind one to another,
"For he that would desire life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile;
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our several parts, defiling the whole body, inflaming the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Speaking » Folly in
but I tell you, that of every idle word, which men shall speak, they shall give an account in the day of judgement; for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Speaking
Topics on Speaking
Christ Speaking
John 18:20Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world, I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither the Jews are continually resorting: and in secret have said nothing. Why dost thou ask me?
Christ Speaking To Disciples
Matthew 12:49and stretching out his hand towards his disciples, He said, "Behold my mother and my brethren:"
Evil Speaking
1 Peter 2:1Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies,
God Speaking Of Old
Hebrews 1:1God, who at sundry times, and various ways, spake of old unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son,
Speaking Again
Acts 10:15And the voice said to him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, do not thou account polluted.
Speaking As From God
1 Peter 4:11If any one speak, let it be as declaring the oracles of God: if any one minister, let it be as from the power which God affordeth him: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Speaking By The Spirit
Luke 12:12for the holy Spirit shall teach you at that very time what ye ought to say.
Speaking In Christ's Name
Matthew 7:22many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name have wrought many miracles? and I will then declare unto them,
Speaking In Tongues
Acts 19:1-7Now it came to pass while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul having passed through the upper parts of Asia came to Ephesus:
Speaking The Word God Gives
Luke 21:15which all your adversaries shall not be able to contradict nor withstand.
Speaking Truth
Ephesians 4:15but holding the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, who is the head, even Christ:
Speaking, Evil
Romans 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Speaking, Wisdom In
James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
The Dumb Speaking
Luke 1:64And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake and praised God.
The Spirit Speaking
Acts 8:29and the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip running up to him,
While Still Speaking
Acts 10:44While Peter was yet speaking these words, the holy Spirit fell upon all them that heard the word.
